Restoring Windows 7 From A System Image

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This is one method that can assure you full system recovery. It’s not necessary that it would be successful all the time. Ultimately you will be forced to take help of an efficient and proficient FAT and NTFS Repair software, which retrieves lost or corrupt data which gets damaged due to various threats including accidental deletion, virus attacks, power failures, emptied recycle bin and in cases where data becomes unrecognized due to corruption in master file table, file allocation table, Master boot record etc.
Here we’ll try restoring our Windows 7 machine using a System Repair Disc and a backed up system image.
If you can’t boot into Windows because of a hard drive failure or corrupt OS, you might want to restore your system using the most recent image versus a clean install. Just follow on the given steps.
Boot from System Repair Disc
♦Firstly one needs to boot from the System Repair Disc. Pop it in your CD drive and set the BIOS to boot from ...
... CD-ROM first.
♦While the System Repair Disc starts up you will see the message Windows is loading files…
♦After that the System Recovery Options screen comes up. Here you want to choose the correct keyboard input and click Next.
♦System Recovery searches for the Windows installation(s) you have on the hard drive.
♦Select Restore your computer using a system image you created earlier and click Next.
♦At this screen you can see that it found the last system image which is saved on an external hard drive. If you want to use an older system image, click Select a system image then browse through older images until you find the correct one. Because we want everything to be as close to how it was before it crashed, we select Use the latest available system image (recommended) then click Next.
♦In the next screen just click on Next…there are no other partitions in this instance so we don’t need to worry about excluding disks.
♦Finally you’re given a quick overview of the selected image and if everything looks right, click Finish.
♦Click Yes to the warning message that comes up making sure you want to restore the computer with the selected image.
♦The restore process will begin. It might take a few hours to restore everything depending on the size of the image and how much data there is. Provided there are no errors and the process completes successfully, your system will restart and the system should be restored.
This is one method that can assure you full system recovery. It’s not necessary that it would be successful all the time. Ultimately you will be forced to take help of an efficient and proficient FAT and NTFS Repair software, which retrieves lost or corrupt data which gets damaged due to various threats including accidental deletion, virus attacks, power failures, emptied recycle bin and in cases where data becomes unrecognized due to corruption in master file table, file allocation table, Master boot record etc.